On Friday 06 May 2005 11:05, hja123 wrote: > Interesting, what you said about faxing and broadband. I would have > thought that it is possible since broadband can handle images. I came > across some non-free software available for this purpose.
Well, broadband itself, like a modem, is not really about sending images: it's a low-level communication system, for sending and receiving data of some kind. In the case of modems and fax machines, the technology is very similar: they take data and encode it as audio, then send it over a phoneline, and finally decode it again. A fax basically *is* a modem with built-in image scanning/conversion/printing. On the other hand, a broadband "modem" is something quite different: it sends and receives data in an entirely different way, that has nothing to do with the way faxes send and receive data. Where the confusion lies is that both technologies are used as underlying communication methods for Internet communications, but when you send an image over the internet, you're not sending it in a way that's similar to fax. In fact, it's VERY different. Rather than calling someone, and sending a digital image, you're connecting to the internet, finding another computer on that network, and digitally sending data through some high-level protocol. What you send could be an image, a sound, or a CD: it's all the same as far as the internet is concerned, but a fax machine wouldn't understand any of it, image or not. -- Lee. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]